Improvement in carbureters



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Carburetor.

Patented Sept. 14,1875.

INVENTOR I WITN SSES ATTORN EYS N PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHXNGTON. D. C.

UN TED STATES PATENT Orrron DANIEL L. WESTOOTT, OF FORT ,WAYNE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'CARBURETERS.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 167,81 1, dated September 14, 1875; application filed August 4, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Oarbureters and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings making a part of this specification, and .to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a transverse vertical section of my carbureter, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the same.

This invention has relation to apparatuses which are designed for carbureting air, and also for enriching illuminating-gas; and the nature of my invention and improvement consists mainly in a revolving cylinder arranged'in a suitable case containing fluid hydrocarbon, inside of which cylinder are vertical and longitudinal partitions, so arranged that the air or gas is carried down into the hydrocarbon fluid, and discharged uniformly into a suitable receptacle from the hollow center of said cylinder, as will be hereinafter explained.

The invention further consists in the combination, with a revolving center-discharge cylinder, of a feed-chamber, and a gas-receiver, which latter is provided with valves, to prevent a'return of the gas after it enters this receiver, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates the cylindrical casin g .of my improved carburetor,

which casing may be of any required diameter and length. To one head of this casing an air-inlet conduit, B, is applied, which is pro- Vided with Wire-cloth at the'points a a, and

with a feed-hole, b, tightly closed by means of a cap, 12 and from this chamber 0 the gasoline or other fluid hydrocarbon flowsinto the casing on opposite sides of a cylindrical chamber, E, and beneath a division-plate, c. The chamber D communicates with the cylindrical chamber E by means of an opening, 6, which is closed by wire-cloth, and from the chamber D the gas is carried off to be burned through-a pipe, d, provided with wire-gauze and a valve.' A valve, opening upward, is applied at f fort-he escape of the gas into chamber D, which valve prevents the return of the gas into the chamber E. The chamber or reservoir D should be of such capacity that a uniform supply of gas from it will be obtained while the gaslisibeing manufactured. G designates a cylinder, which is of less diameter and length than the casin g A. One end of this cylinder G has a shaft, h, fixed to it, which passes through the casing-head, and has applied to it suitable mechanism, which will give regular rotation to cylinder Gr in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1. Inside of and concentric with the axis of cylinder G is a tube, H, one end of which is closed. The other end has its bearing in the division-plate c, and opens into the chamber E. J J are openings through the external wall of the cylinder G, which are diametri cally-opposite each other, and extend from one end to the other of the cylinder. J J are openings, which are made through the inner wall of the cylinder G, and which are equal in I tions, which are in planes tangent to the circumference of the inner wall of cylinder G,

and which extend to the openings through its' outer Wall, and divide it intotwo compartments, 9 g, of equal capacity, each one of which has its inlet-opening J and its outletopening J. divided by partitions K, which are in vertical planes, and which are not perforated, they being made of solid sheets of thin metal, so as to present the largest possible amount of evaporating-surface in a given space.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: When the casing A has been charged with the proper carbonizing-liquid the height of this liquid will be automatically and uniformly preserved at the proper point, indicated by dotted line 00 a; for as the liquid in the machine is expended, and falls below a The chambers g g are subgiven point, the air will pass in,andtake the an opening, J, into the central chamber H, and

In like i from thence into the chamber D. manner the opposite chamber in cylinder G will submerge its quantum of air, and discharge it properly carburcted into the chamber D.

If I divide the cylinder G into two equal parts, as shown, and charge with liquid to the line at m, an interior passage, J, to the center will be opened at the moment the exterior passage J of the same chamber is closed at the surface of the liquid, and the air contained withinsaid chamber will be forced into the upper portion of the hollow axis, and thence out into the receiving-chamber. The liquid is at the same time poured out into the lower portion ,of. the hollow axis, and thence into the casing-chamber outside of cylinder G, to be again acted on as before. While one side of cylinder G is acting the other portion is brought over, and operates in the same manner as stated, thus keeping up a continued and uniform pressure of air or gas. The effect produced is that the air, being carried over, around, and through the carbureting-liquid, and subjected to the liquid evaporating from the constantly-wet surfaces of the partitions K, andagitated, becomes so min gled with the light vaporof hydrocarbon that an illuminating-gas of excellent quality is produced. p

What Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a carbureter, the revolving cylinder G, having the tube H, the vertical and longitudinal partitionsK K, and openings J J, whereby the air or gas is carried down into the hydrocarbon fluid and dischargeduniformly into a suitable receptacle from thetube of said cylinder, as described. v

2. In a carbureter, the combination, with the revolving cylinder G, as described, and the feed-chamber G, of the gas-chamber D, provided with valves, to preventa return of the gas after it enters, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

DANL. L. WESTOOTT- r Witnesses:

WALTER O. MASI, B. H. MORSE. 

